Multi Pens for Multi People

A few years back, our friend Kate, an art supply maven, gave us one of the most useful multi things ever: two refillable multi pens. The pen bodies look kind of like this, though ours only allow four colors each, rather than five.

Unlike other multi pens, these pens are easily refillable. You can get whatever colors you want (the color refills look like this) and swap them out or change them at will, so you're never stuck with dead or unwanted colors. You can even put in mechanical pencil refills, so they're both pen AND pencils!

Kate gave them to us because they kept seeing us having system meetings, which we journal on paper. With roughly a dozen in the roster, and because we color-code our speakers (Miranda uses black, Gigi green, Sneak pink...) we would always be surrounded by writing utensils. Now, thanks to Kate, we can just use our two multi pens! With eight colors, and fortunately a pretty even divide between lefthanded folks (who almost all have very similar handwriting) and righthanded folks (who all have very DIFFERENT handwriting), each color can get used by one lefty and one righty, meaning our two multi pens can cover up to sixteen different people.

Obviously this wouldn't work for big crews or tiny ones, but it was a huge help for us!